The 4 Disciplines of Execution®
Achieving your wildly important goals.

The 4 Disciplines Of Execution®
The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) is a simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing on your most important strategic priorities in the midst of the whirlwind.
8 Ways to Boost Your Team's Commitment to Goals
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Start Playing Offense
Learn from the bestselling author of The 4 Disciplines of Execution, Chris McChesney, on what leaders can do to help the organization move forward despite the whirlwind of the day job.

Execute Your Must-Win Strategies - On Demand Webcast
The execute your must-win strategies On Demand webcast is powered by principles from The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX®) that have been tested and refined by thousands of organizations worldwide.
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The Pace of Breakthrough Execution - XPS
Organizations spend more than $30 billion dollars annually on strategy creation, and more than 80% of those strategies fail. How can an organization with superb people and strategy fail so often?

Discipline 1: Focus On The Wildly Important
Discipline 1: Focus on the Wildly Important - A wildly important goal (WIG) is a goal that can make all the difference. You're going to commit to apply a disproportionate amount of energy to it.
Executing in Uncertainty and Complexity
Bestselling author and strategy execution expert Chris McChesney outlines how The 4 Disciplines of Execution® can help leaders drive results, even during uncertain and ambiguous times.

Focusing The Organization - Opryland
The Opryland is a great example of how WIGs can be aligned across multiple levels of an organization to create powerful results.

How can I measure my team to make sure we reach our goal?
Not all actions are created equal. Thijs Westerink shares some advice to help you identify the right actions to measure to ensure you achieve your goals.

Discipline 2: Act On The Lead Measures
The discipline of leverage requires you to identify and act on the measures that are predictive of reaching your goal and that can be influenced by you and the team.

Move Your Middle
As companies, we have varying degrees of engagement and performance from our employees. How do we take the average engagement of our employees and move it to extraordinary engagement?

Discipline 3: Keep A Compelling Scoreboard
The discipline of engagement requires you to create a players' scoreboard so that members of the team can easily tell whether they are winning or losing.

How can I prevent employees from slipping into old behaviors?
FranklinCovey’s Senior Vice President of Sales U.S. and Canada, Jennifer Colosimo, shares the most effective way to prevent the regression of employees into undesirable behaviors.

Chris McChesney Shares the Importance of Playing a High-Stakes, Winnable Game
In this clip, Chris shares the importance of playing a high-stakes, winnable game in the workplace.

Focus Traps
The quickest way to kill execution: lose focus or over-goal your team or your organization.

Execute in Uncertainty and Complexity
Learn from the bestselling author of the 4 Disciplines of Execution®, Chris McChesney, as he discusses what a leadership team needs to do to navigate unnecessary complexity.

Discipline 4: Create A Cadence Of Accountability
The discipline of commitment requires you to hold regularly scheduled team meetings where members make and keep commitments to each other to execute on the wildly important goal.

Blame The People
Most leaders understand how difficult it is to execute on a strategy that requires a change in other peoples’ behavior.

How can I help my team focus on what is most important?
Jennifer Colosimo, FranklinCovey's Senior Vice President of Sales for US and Canada, shares some tips to help leaders narrow their focus on critical goals.
The 4 Disciplines of Execution in Government - Monograph
It takes incredible discipline to execute a strategic goal in any organization. Read how The 4 Disciplines of Execution can be implemented to achieve remarkable results in government.
Execution in Production and Operations
How The 4 Disciplines of Execution have been used to create dramatic results in production and operations environments.
